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Feb 16, 2021 · To say the least, the Immigration Act of 1917 had the impact desired by its supporters. According to the Migration Policy Institute, only about 110,000 new immigrants were allowed to enter the United States in 1918, compared to more than 1.2 million in 1913.
- Robert Longley
An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens to, and the residence of aliens in, the United States. The Immigration Act of 1917 (also known as the Literacy Act or the Burnett Act [1] and less often as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act) was a United States Act that aimed to restrict immigration by imposing literacy tests on immigrants, creating new ...
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Although this law is best known for its creation of a “barred zone” extending from the Middle East to Southeast Asia from which no persons were allowed to enter the United States, its main restriction consisted of a literacy test intended to reduce European immigration.
Feb 5, 2024 · On February 5th, 1917, Congress passed an immigration act that would have a significant impact on persons wishing to settle in the United States. Required was a literacy test for immigrants, while the law also prohibited entry by laborers from Asia -- with exceptions for countries, such as the Philippines that already had established relations.
Feb 5, 2017 · One hundred years ago today (Feb. 5), Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1917, the first legislation to dramatically limit immigration into the U.S. It introduced rulings that singled out ...
Feb 6, 2017 · The 1917 act built on previous legislation, including the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the Gentlemen’s Agreement of 1907, which was an informal system for regulating immigration from Japan.
Jun 25, 2018 · The law built on earlier restrictive measures, including the literacy tests and the Asiatic Barred Zone of the Immigration Act of 1917 and the “emergency quotas” of the Immigration Act of 1921. Over time, the 1924 act made a tremendous impact on the nation’s urban areas because of the concentration of immigrants there.
